La Plata, Argentina, 1931

Painter, sculptor and writer, he lived in New York from 1967 to 2004. He was born in La Plata, Argentina, 1931. He currently resides in Segovia, Spain.

He also worked at the Galerie Denise René (Düsseldorf, 1972, New York, 1973 and 1976, Paris, 1974); at the Fuji TV Gallery (Tokyo, 1982). He had a partial retrospective (1969-1980) in the Americas Society (New York, 1981). In 2010 he produced a painting: The integral vision, in the gallery Guillermo de Osma and, summoned by the architect Rafael Moneo, realizes a pictorial operation, La Illegada in the train’s of high speed lobby, in the Atocha station, Madrid. His most recent exhibition were, in 2012, Painting as Object: The Lateral Expansion. Recent Works at Cecília de Torres Gallery, New York, and Painting and Architecture at the Durban-Segnini Gallery in Miami. In 2013 he was honored as Artist Celebrated at the fair PINTA, Latin American Art Modern and Contemporary, London. More recently, he exhibited his painting and sculptural work at the Denise Rene Gallery, Rive Gauche, Paris (2015).

In 1972, he was awarded a Guggenheim scholarship; He also received a scholarship from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1990) and the Gottlieb Foundation (1991). In 2007, he was awarded the “Francisco de Goya” painting award from the Villa de Madrid.

He carried out photographic studies and studies of archaeological systems in Peru, Bolivia and Mexico and taught courses on the abstract symbolic systems of ancient America. His book Piedra abstracto – Inca sculpture: a contemporary vision (Buenos Aires, 1989), was translated into English as The Stone and the Wire: Andean Roots of Abstract Art (University of Texas Press, 1996).

He was commissioner of the exhibition Abstraction: The Amerindian paradigm, inaugurated at the Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels (2001), later traveled to the Valencian Institute of Modern Art. He also edited the demo catalog, which included an essay by himself and collaborations by Lucy R. Lippard, Maria Frame, Cecilia de Torres and Valentín Ferdinán.